Audit faults prosthetic firm's documentation

The company, Ozark Prosthetics and Orthotics, is co-owned by state Rep. Jeff Messenger

7:42 AM,
Apr. 10, 2013

Written by

Sarah Okeson
SOKESON@NEWS-LEADER.COM

A federal audit says a Springfield health care business co-owned by a state representative received $67,306 in Medicare payments that didn't have the proper documentation.

Ozark Prosthetics and Orthotics "submitted unsupported claims because it lacked adequate internal controls to ensure that it collected and maintained the required documentation," according to the April report from the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The business is owned by Jeff and Wanda Messenger of Republic. It has 18 employees and about $4 million in sales ...